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Chicago examiner vol xiv nd 35 a m c * sunday Chicago march i 1914 sunday price five cents gen carranza refuses bryan demand for benton facts victim of villa was a british sub 1 ject is rebel leader's reply to secretary of state will investigate the bauch case england refuses to send consul to chihuahua and passes re sponsibility back to u s carden reaches galveston nogales sonora mexico feb 28 in two notes to the washing ton government issued to-day gen eral carranza declined to supply in formation to secretary bryan re garding the killing in juarez of wil liam s benton on the ground that benton was a british subject he gave assurances that he would investigate and report on the dis appearance in juarez of gustav bauch an american citizen this resulted from urgent requests from the state department at wash ington through american consul frederick simpich which have been made at various times in the last | hree days v ishington lfeh 28--a grave hitch , : . lirls on between rent britain and the ri l sintis net the personnel of the â€ž cr , ia tional commission which is to go Â„â€ž juarez to chihuahua to view the Â„;., â€ž, ,-â€ž. hiiiish subject william s Â„;,â€žâ€ž. who was shot to death by gen o villa ..;â– ;,.,. Â„â€ž honrs conference lasting until | h a o'clock this afternoon between i hit basset moore and the british am â– ..,..,. r , si cecil spring-rice it was ;..â€žâ€žâ€ž,â€ž,â€ž! by the ambassador that the british consul would not be a member of i he commission the ambassador said if mr perceval was to be a member nr the commission be would naturally be the president of that body and i under stand that the united states will not have a diplomatic representative Â« n t commission it would seem therefore that mr perceval would be responsible for whatever action is taken of course that is how the matter stands at this moment and i cannot tell what the final result will be it is understood here that sir edward grey finding that the united states would not send a state department rep resentative on the commission made the counter move the object of which is patently to throw the responsibility back upon the united stulc3 commission outlined the commissioners for the united states as announced by john bassett moore will be two army surgeons to be detailed by general bliss a representative of the department of justice to be se lected by the federal attorney in el paso and a representative of the customs de partment to be cbosen by the collector of customs in el paso the british ambassador said the brit ish members would be two representatives to be selected by consul perceval the widow of mr benton and other relatives the british ambassador telegraphed the result of his conference with john | bassett moore to the british foreign of fice and mr perceval he expects a re ply from sir kdward grey within twelve hours sir cecil spring-bice disposed of the j stories that great britain was to demand an indemnity or reparation from villa or carranza for benton ell said nothing could be done until the facts had been ascertained by the commission vcrgara case up kveu when those facts were ascer tained lie said he case of benton would be just the same as that of the citizen of any other country who had suf fered in mexico sir ce.il spring-bice announced to the newspapermen that be bad received from london ihe memorandum which was is l t e by general huerta and published l yesterday in mexico giving huerta's l views on the embargo h john bassett moore said the huerta b porernmeut has informed mr o'shaugh m nessy it will make a thorough investiga ja into tho ease of clcinente vergara i^lind will punish the criminals i president huerta however said he had b knowledge ou the subject the state has no report from consul ik^kartett either as to the facts of the mur bpr or as to the citizenship of vergara b-trdcn reaches galveston ib^kai.vesto.v tex feb 28 sir lionel hh'den british minister to meilco hnkr having been delayed by heavy seas 5 singers at dinner cost queen mary 78 economical regime at bucking ham evident in entertainment special cubit *Â» th examiner london feo 28 queen mary's econ omies in buckingham palace were evi dent at a dinner party last night when five glee singers were hired to entertain the royal guests after dinner at a total cost of 78 the singers had to agree not to advertise that they had been en gaged to sing ln buckingham palace the lowest fee ever paid for a perform ance in buckingham palice during the reign of king edward was 525 identifies koetters who checked grip i c employe says prisoner had dead woman's handbag james findley in of the parcel check room of the Illinois central rail road passenger station identified john b handsome jack koetters at the county jail yesterday according to the police as a man who checked a woman's knitted handbag at the check room no vember 14 1012 the day mrs emma kraft was murdered with a hammer in the saratoga hotel the handbag was found in mrs kraft's room after the murder it bad been checked at the parcel room and soon afterward taken out paris bandits take 200,000 from van money to pay salaries in branches is stolen in daylight raid paris feb 28 jmore than 200,000 in cash was stolen from a postoffice van to day at one of the railroad stations in paris as to-day is the last day of the month large sums were being transmitted to various points for the payment of monthly salaries and accounts the police would give no details of the robbery ex cept that the van was one among several being unloaded at the time and that there was a great deal of confusion iridiscent wigs are barred at capital society leaders also oppose ex treme styles in gowns washington feb 28.-the colored wig will not be accepted by washington society nor will the extreme styles in dress win a welcome leaders including mrs peter goclct gerry mrs richard townsend mrs rreston gibson mrs william f draper and others have agreed to endeavor to bring about mod eration in styles 5 students faint at anasethetic lecture professor says mental suggestion men more than women â– madison wis feb 28 when pro fessor louis kahlenberg chemistry de partment of the university of wisconsin described vividly the effects of certain anaesthetics before a class of 300 under classmen five students fainted accord ing to he professor's personal observa ion men are more liable o faint through mental suggestion than are women puccini monopoly too strong for ricordi american companies can't sing italian's opera in paris special cabin to h examinw pakis feb 28 â€” titto iticordi has failed in bis effort to break the opera comique monopoly of puccini's operas in paris and the metropolitan and boston companies will be debarred from singiug them in the champs elysees theater next spring mother gives life trying to save babies spokane wash feb 28 awakened by an explosion which was followed by lire and destroyed her home mrs stella maries a widow lost her life early to day when trying to save her two daugh ters three and five years old after send ing her two young sons to neighbors for help the cause of the explosion and fire is unknown the two daughters are be lieved to have been burned witb their mother halt zion city worship with tar vandals smeared tar on the floor of tabernacle no 2 at zion city yesterday and prevented the morning services of the elders which was to be held in con nection with the third anniversary cele bration of the purchase of the estate of the late aletander dowie steps were taken to qud i.bose guilty mrs palmer 10 issue new answer to higinbotham says all money available will be used to erect a build ing for the benefit ot wom en and girls as planned mrs trautmann in new york says she is ready to turn 17,000 over to the head of lady managers board mrs potter palmr will make a full and detailed statefent early this wek in re gard to the fund growing out of the work of the women in the world's fair which was intended at that time to be used for the constructilon of a woman's building on the lake front this statement will deal with the con tribution of 200,000 by the late potter palmer to the fund and also will present the plans of mrs palmer and the others who were active on the board of lady managers of the exposition for the em ployment of the money farther than that it will be a specific and detailed reply to the criticisms of harlow x higinbotham who declared the fund was based on an appropriation made by the directors of the world's fair from the sale of concessions in the woman's building to be added to the potter palmer contribution and to be em ployed for the specific purpose of the construction of the building as a head quarters for all manner of women's ac tivities answers mr higinbotham mr higinbotham is absolutely mis taken said mrs palmer yesterday aft ernoon in discussing the reply of mr higinbotham to the statement of mrs palmer which was published in the ex aminer yesterday moniing if the minutes of the ways and means committee of the exposition show that any such appropriation was made as mr higinbotham declares i shall be delight ed to see them because the addition of the sum he mentions will help our fund very much indeed the money in cur possession did not come from the direc tors at all i shall insist on seeing the records on monday concerning the donation of 200,000 made by her husband to the woman's cause mrs palmer said certainly i know all about that fund i am preparing a statement which will be ready in a few days it is necessarily long and intricate and therefore impossi ble to discuss the statement will go into the fullest details i do not care to say anything about it in advance mrs trautmann differs a statement was made yesterday by mrs mary e trautmann of sew york who was the first vice president of the board of lady managers of the Chicago world's fair under the presidency of mrs palmer that 17,000 realized from the sale of the isabella quarters will be forwarded to mrs palmer immediately mrs trautmann however does not take the same view as to the source of the fund in possession oi mrs rainier and her statement that when the commission was disbanded automatically mrs palmer and mrs trautmann found themselves in possession of a quantity of money that congress had appropriated as well as the money from the sale of concessions in the woman's building bears out to esmo extent the statement of mr llig hotham mr higinbotham left for ludiaua yes terday morning on business connected with one of his trusteeship and will re turn to-morrow evening before leaving be said that the minutes of the ways and means committee of the world's fair which contain the record of the appropriations for the woman's build ing are in the possession of a trust com pany and easily accessible when needed mrs trautman's statement i have the money iu my possession at this instant said mrs trautman when seen in now york yesterday uftemoou and i will place it in mrs palmer's hand at the earliest opportunity she has boon abroad so much of late and has traveled so widely that i have never known where she was tho money is in a trust company here in new york and perhaps i shall send mrs palmer a draft for it to-day or to-morrow 1 was appointed a member of the board of lady managers for the Chicago fair bv chatmoey depew when the com mission was first created hy a special act of congress this was the first time in the history of america that cougres hud officially recognized the american woman as a factor in government and had given her any important work to do east state was to have two women commis goelet pride palls on robert's wife to much mother-in-law as cribed as reason for separation newport r 1 feb 28 too much mother-in-law is said by those most in timate witb the family to be the reason underlying mrs robert goelet's suit for divorce they say it is mrs ogden goelet rather than robert to whom the latter's wife objects i am tired of the constant thought of the goelet name and the effort to main tain the oelet pride the younger mrs goelet is said to have retorted when her husband urged her to stop thinking of a divorce william cheney ellis snapped as he tainted on the witness stand under the gruelling volley of questions fired at him by assistant state's attorney malato ben jamin kraemer court bailiff on the left and attorney remus of counsel for the defense prevent wife slayer from falling from his chair to the floor ce-eds give up hunger strike students say it will be continued if better food is not served the co-eds who began a hunger strike at green and kelly halls at the univer sity of Chicago returned lo their tables yesterday after sending word to miss cora c coburn who has charge of the tables that if better food was not served within the next two days they and the women of foster and beecher halls would undertake another hunger strike the women have been given to under stand that they have the moral support of marion talbot dean of women of the university miss talbot has refused to eat the food served at times and is said to have interceded with the university authorities on behalf of the strikers some of the meat is unfit for food and none of it is good said one of the stu dents the dishes are not clean and the service is intolerable verdict will divide 10,000,000 lands tennessee judge rules for heirs who sue coal concern bristol tenn feb 28 judge frank b hutton of the circuit court at abing don va to-day decided the suit of the imboden heirs against the clinchfield coal corporation involving the title to coal lands in dickenson and russell counties virginia valued at 10,000,000 he sustained the contentions of the complainants and awarded tbem an equity of one-sixth of the entire property the heirs based their claim on the ground that the deed of their father con veying the property to their mother pro vided an equity for the children which was ignored when the parents sold to the coal corporation an appeal will be taken memphis bank will pay its depositors accounts under 1,000 to be settled in full others for 75 per cent memphis feb 28 payment in full to depositors whose individual accounts arc less than 1,000 and 7o per cent payments to depositors of larger sums is proposed in a plan agreed on to-day by directors of the suspended mercantile bank the directors agreed to contribute 300,000 to a fund to be added to the bank's assets an audit of the bank's books showed a shortage of approximate ly 1,000,000 which it is alleged c hun ter raine president of the institution lost in cotton speculations ilalne is in jail awaiting trial on charges of embez zlement he turned over lnis personal fortune to be used as an asset o-t-hie bank '. .", criminal negligence not shown in dye fire evidence taken in the"bearing before deputy state l'ire marshal back concern ing the fire in the plant of the kraus brothers locwy company at 310 west twenty-fourth place monday will be sub mitted to state l'ire marshal walter h bennett at springfield mr bach said the testimony did not show criminal negligence primarily because different witnesses contradicted each other so flatly saloons for women only pittsburgh idea pittsburgh feb 2s pittsburgh will have manless - saloons in the near future according to the plans announced by director of public safety charles b hubbard hukster women and farmer women who congregate in the market house each week to dispose of their wares be gan the custom years ago to go to the saloons and cafes in market square for breakfast and a mug of beer on the side this was legitimate and proper and with these and other respectable women we have found uo fault said di rector hubbard however continued the director other women many of them disreputable characters have taken advantage of this condition and the custom as spread throughout the city lt is a had oue and must be stopped the whole solution of the affair can be brought about by having saloons for women only two saloonkeepers iu the market square whose names i do not wish to divulge ha\e agreed to open such jm seminary ablaze at river forest students help fight flames at evangelical german lutheran institution in spite of the efforts of the fire de partments of three villages and the vol j unteer work of scores of citizens the i'-flae administration building rt ine evau '.,,â€¢Â«Â« â€¢ gel'ital german lutheran concordia senii nor-r'a-i r(yer-i'Â«re,st costing 73,000 was jifcs'trij.t'eovvliisj-.'ulliht by a fire that illu ' m'inafetl the couu'ry for miles four dormitories were threatened and at 9 o'clock the firemen of the river forest qak park and may wood depart ments were working desperately to save them the 200 students labored to ex tinguish sparks on the roofs of the struc tures there were two reports on the cause of the fire one blaming crossed wires near the roof of the administation build ing and the other an overheated furnace | in the basement crosses the andes in american automobile johnson martin princeton football player accomplishes feat washington feb 28 an american built automobile driven by johnson m*m tiu of t'len nidge n j a princeton footbal player of recent years has suc ceeded in crossing the andes thus achiev ing a victory for which automobiles of a number of foreign makes hate been striv ing for the last five years or more a cablegram to-day to the pan-amer ican union announced martin's arrival in santiago chile from buenos aires ar gentina a number of attempts to cross the an des in aeroplanes have failed martin crossed the backbone of th south amor ienn continent at a height of more than i''.ooo feet throng i the famous umpallata pass mayor of st louis eats ostrich egg fresh laid it reaches his table | from park zoo st louis mo feb 28 mayor kiel i for the first time partook of a brand new i breakfast food this morning in the form j of an ostrich egg the egg was presented to george e dieckman president of the st louis zoological society by one of j the monster ostriches in the zoo in for est park thursday night dieckman gave the egg to mayor kiel yesterday with a guarantee that it was perfectly harmless and extremely nourishing it was about the size of a large cocoanut kiel said he was willing to take the chance on most anything and could see no reason why he should not eat the egg i instructed mrs kiel personally to conduct the cooking of the egg the mayor said and 1 told her to scramble it al though dieckman told me it was just as good fried kiel said there was plenty of egg to supply tue entire kiel family i there was j saves 20 from fire hides his identity man gives alarm by shooting and rushes into building an unidentified hero saved twenty frightened children and their parents from tire yesterday the man gave the alarm by tiring five shots from a revolver and then dashed iuto the burning two story flat building at 1400 and 1407 east sixty-fifth street and pounded on the doors of the different families the es caping children were in their night clothes and some of tho little ones were barely able to toddle the families made shelterless wore those of n'ehls swanson who has a wife and seven children martin l-'lannigan his wife and four children and jeremiah lynch his wife and nine children a hasty count made by the fathers in the glare of the burning building dis closed the safety ot all the children shivering and bewailing the loss of their home were cared for by neighbors the buildinjr^was practically a total loss b killing of peeper upheld by jury deserter from army had lived in cellar of mother's home since september cedae itai'ids la feb 28.-shoot ing a man caught peeping in windows of a young women's dormitory is not a crime that should be punished by law was the decision of a coroner's jury at mount evrnon la this afternoon the jury which consisted of a retired farm er a hardware merchant and an attor ney completely exonerated three students at cornell college who shot and killed . howard manning last night the testimony also brought out tre fact that manning has been biding in mount vernon since last september unknown to any one except his mother several rob j beries that have been committed in the 1 town since that time in addition to : numerous peeping tom complaints are | believed to have been committed by the ; | young man after his dentil manning's mother j stated that her son deserted from the ! army last september and since that time she has kept him hidden in the cellar of her home he left his hiding place | at night only and after the residents of j the town had gone to bed he was twen â– ty-five years old and married his wife ! left him shortly after the wedding woman's parliament to down suffrage london feb 28 the socl ist week ly the new statesman publishes a re port to-day that mrs humphrey ward with a view to overthrowing the suf frage movement is organizing an of ficial woman's f.iri lament to be com i posed of women and such liberal and j unionist members of the house of com | mons as can be persuaded to loin lt to | sit permanently and advise the gotirn uient on all legislative matters concern 4 women mrs ward is a pronounced ajfu-woman suffragist / ft __ wife pur cries ellis attacked by paren best of women exclai slayer when her aged ther enraged by his tel mony shouts i'll kill yoi is this the reason ex-ju asks as maddened by ad sion of malady he tries attack prisoner in co confronted by the enraged parent the wife he killed and then traduced life threatened iu court by his father-in-law and subjected to the est mental torture by the merciless < tions of the prosecutor that bareu innermost secrets of his life william ( i ney ellis fainted ou the witness si yesterday in judge potil's court , greatly exhausted be finished thet day of testimony in his own defense left the stand to bo succeeded by ex ; alienists who will try to convinc 1 jury he w-as insane when on uctobe last he shot and stabbed his witj death in bed at the hotel sherman the day in court was one of tense uations the first demonstration wrii when ellis on the stain admitted before he had married the beau eleanor hosea in cincinnati nine j ago be had suffered with a lorriolc ease which it was liken lis cliih would inheril ellis was protcstin hrd wanted to shield his wife i*ll kill you cries parent yes you wanted to shiobl her claimed assistant state's attorney j to you were shielding her when married her knowing that you sufl from an inheritable disease did yon yv>u wore damaged goods yet married this purest and best of wni and yon never told her did you never told her father did youv i thought it was not necessary j doctor told me it was not ejjjj piled i then robert h hosea himself foj i on the bench trembling under thÂ»4h i of his grief and his seventy-five j i leaped to his feet in horror and wrd i is this the reason is this the reafcl i he screamed think of those little i dren 111 kill you l'll kill you i he started for the witness ata-g b if his feeble bands could do barm i b man who had slain his child bat h â– held back and judge petit declared i cess for a few minutes b mrs hosea clung to her husband i and wept but took no part in his â– sionate outbreak . â– mistakes lawyer for slayer i b as tbey were being led on ef th i there was another scene attorney ** i burtner of cincinnati an old mend i moned here by the defense net the b the aisle and held out both hands fc i stricken father hosea tbougbt it i ellis â– ont of my ai_i ihoute h a w a y-get away or i'll kill v.,u i whole story is ftrfse bell just h but by this i ll i f vife i ing to him had made him under tanfl i this was not the man but a f lend i the old mini put abont bw h neck and wept from the beginning been j i ent that ellis defense would tal i form of temporarj insanity auj ibis wife's admission that her invl b gone to another man and possihj i the charge open or veiled that i had been something improper in h i but yesterday goaded to frenzy s i torturing questions of the slat hi b claimed loudly he knew that ulsj i wns pure and good and trite watts attorney maluto askcdthiinj i be charge that his wife had bj i friendly with fred cauldwell - fl i ford ont he lost control of himflj m"my wife good and pure.'b i doit warn this jury to thirÃŸ anything inst my wife â– b"my wife eras i soot pure woil i car whether it goes againsll bir is concornei i lon't cstÃŸ lensp â€¢>Â£ a fingei but i do think !â– lii to lire for the sake of my cl-fl i the state yesterday announced i iwill a*v fred canidwell a merclÃŸ ont , tc come here andfl i ellis has always said he follch bvife to Chicago from cincinnati 1 hrivttnued on sth page sth column continued on 2d page 6th column fsjf-3 Chicago and vicinity gen ' vi^s^n ut erally fair sunday and monday q_sj*br much colder sunday high north pv a stf west winds sunday 3jj kange of temperatures yesterday v.vn \ __ â€” ' iwn Â« this edition consists of i news s city i.ife i want ads jâ€”nk'ws e ~ editorial real estai ctyg r ction financial 3 sl'ortts t a.ua h magazine 4 sotlfctv and t'sic 9 comics foreign 10-monthly magazine

Chicago examiner vol xiv nd 35 a m c * sunday Chicago march i 1914 sunday price five cents gen carranza refuses bryan demand for benton facts victim of villa was a british sub 1 ject is rebel leader's reply to secretary of state will investigate the bauch case england refuses to send consul to chihuahua and passes re sponsibility back to u s carden reaches galveston nogales sonora mexico feb 28 in two notes to the washing ton government issued to-day gen eral carranza declined to supply in formation to secretary bryan re garding the killing in juarez of wil liam s benton on the ground that benton was a british subject he gave assurances that he would investigate and report on the dis appearance in juarez of gustav bauch an american citizen this resulted from urgent requests from the state department at wash ington through american consul frederick simpich which have been made at various times in the last | hree days v ishington lfeh 28--a grave hitch , : . lirls on between rent britain and the ri l sintis net the personnel of the â€ž cr , ia tional commission which is to go Â„â€ž juarez to chihuahua to view the Â„;., â€ž, ,-â€ž. hiiiish subject william s Â„;,â€žâ€ž. who was shot to death by gen o villa ..;â– ;,.,. Â„â€ž honrs conference lasting until | h a o'clock this afternoon between i hit basset moore and the british am â– ..,..,. r , si cecil spring-rice it was ;..â€žâ€žâ€ž,â€ž,â€ž! by the ambassador that the british consul would not be a member of i he commission the ambassador said if mr perceval was to be a member nr the commission be would naturally be the president of that body and i under stand that the united states will not have a diplomatic representative Â« n t commission it would seem therefore that mr perceval would be responsible for whatever action is taken of course that is how the matter stands at this moment and i cannot tell what the final result will be it is understood here that sir edward grey finding that the united states would not send a state department rep resentative on the commission made the counter move the object of which is patently to throw the responsibility back upon the united stulc3 commission outlined the commissioners for the united states as announced by john bassett moore will be two army surgeons to be detailed by general bliss a representative of the department of justice to be se lected by the federal attorney in el paso and a representative of the customs de partment to be cbosen by the collector of customs in el paso the british ambassador said the brit ish members would be two representatives to be selected by consul perceval the widow of mr benton and other relatives the british ambassador telegraphed the result of his conference with john | bassett moore to the british foreign of fice and mr perceval he expects a re ply from sir kdward grey within twelve hours sir cecil spring-bice disposed of the j stories that great britain was to demand an indemnity or reparation from villa or carranza for benton ell said nothing could be done until the facts had been ascertained by the commission vcrgara case up kveu when those facts were ascer tained lie said he case of benton would be just the same as that of the citizen of any other country who had suf fered in mexico sir ce.il spring-bice announced to the newspapermen that be bad received from london ihe memorandum which was is l t e by general huerta and published l yesterday in mexico giving huerta's l views on the embargo h john bassett moore said the huerta b porernmeut has informed mr o'shaugh m nessy it will make a thorough investiga ja into tho ease of clcinente vergara i^lind will punish the criminals i president huerta however said he had b knowledge ou the subject the state has no report from consul ik^kartett either as to the facts of the mur bpr or as to the citizenship of vergara b-trdcn reaches galveston ib^kai.vesto.v tex feb 28 sir lionel hh'den british minister to meilco hnkr having been delayed by heavy seas 5 singers at dinner cost queen mary 78 economical regime at bucking ham evident in entertainment special cubit *Â» th examiner london feo 28 queen mary's econ omies in buckingham palace were evi dent at a dinner party last night when five glee singers were hired to entertain the royal guests after dinner at a total cost of 78 the singers had to agree not to advertise that they had been en gaged to sing ln buckingham palace the lowest fee ever paid for a perform ance in buckingham palice during the reign of king edward was 525 identifies koetters who checked grip i c employe says prisoner had dead woman's handbag james findley in of the parcel check room of the Illinois central rail road passenger station identified john b handsome jack koetters at the county jail yesterday according to the police as a man who checked a woman's knitted handbag at the check room no vember 14 1012 the day mrs emma kraft was murdered with a hammer in the saratoga hotel the handbag was found in mrs kraft's room after the murder it bad been checked at the parcel room and soon afterward taken out paris bandits take 200,000 from van money to pay salaries in branches is stolen in daylight raid paris feb 28 jmore than 200,000 in cash was stolen from a postoffice van to day at one of the railroad stations in paris as to-day is the last day of the month large sums were being transmitted to various points for the payment of monthly salaries and accounts the police would give no details of the robbery ex cept that the van was one among several being unloaded at the time and that there was a great deal of confusion iridiscent wigs are barred at capital society leaders also oppose ex treme styles in gowns washington feb 28.-the colored wig will not be accepted by washington society nor will the extreme styles in dress win a welcome leaders including mrs peter goclct gerry mrs richard townsend mrs rreston gibson mrs william f draper and others have agreed to endeavor to bring about mod eration in styles 5 students faint at anasethetic lecture professor says mental suggestion men more than women â– madison wis feb 28 when pro fessor louis kahlenberg chemistry de partment of the university of wisconsin described vividly the effects of certain anaesthetics before a class of 300 under classmen five students fainted accord ing to he professor's personal observa ion men are more liable o faint through mental suggestion than are women puccini monopoly too strong for ricordi american companies can't sing italian's opera in paris special cabin to h examinw pakis feb 28 â€” titto iticordi has failed in bis effort to break the opera comique monopoly of puccini's operas in paris and the metropolitan and boston companies will be debarred from singiug them in the champs elysees theater next spring mother gives life trying to save babies spokane wash feb 28 awakened by an explosion which was followed by lire and destroyed her home mrs stella maries a widow lost her life early to day when trying to save her two daugh ters three and five years old after send ing her two young sons to neighbors for help the cause of the explosion and fire is unknown the two daughters are be lieved to have been burned witb their mother halt zion city worship with tar vandals smeared tar on the floor of tabernacle no 2 at zion city yesterday and prevented the morning services of the elders which was to be held in con nection with the third anniversary cele bration of the purchase of the estate of the late aletander dowie steps were taken to qud i.bose guilty mrs palmer 10 issue new answer to higinbotham says all money available will be used to erect a build ing for the benefit ot wom en and girls as planned mrs trautmann in new york says she is ready to turn 17,000 over to the head of lady managers board mrs potter palmr will make a full and detailed statefent early this wek in re gard to the fund growing out of the work of the women in the world's fair which was intended at that time to be used for the constructilon of a woman's building on the lake front this statement will deal with the con tribution of 200,000 by the late potter palmer to the fund and also will present the plans of mrs palmer and the others who were active on the board of lady managers of the exposition for the em ployment of the money farther than that it will be a specific and detailed reply to the criticisms of harlow x higinbotham who declared the fund was based on an appropriation made by the directors of the world's fair from the sale of concessions in the woman's building to be added to the potter palmer contribution and to be em ployed for the specific purpose of the construction of the building as a head quarters for all manner of women's ac tivities answers mr higinbotham mr higinbotham is absolutely mis taken said mrs palmer yesterday aft ernoon in discussing the reply of mr higinbotham to the statement of mrs palmer which was published in the ex aminer yesterday moniing if the minutes of the ways and means committee of the exposition show that any such appropriation was made as mr higinbotham declares i shall be delight ed to see them because the addition of the sum he mentions will help our fund very much indeed the money in cur possession did not come from the direc tors at all i shall insist on seeing the records on monday concerning the donation of 200,000 made by her husband to the woman's cause mrs palmer said certainly i know all about that fund i am preparing a statement which will be ready in a few days it is necessarily long and intricate and therefore impossi ble to discuss the statement will go into the fullest details i do not care to say anything about it in advance mrs trautmann differs a statement was made yesterday by mrs mary e trautmann of sew york who was the first vice president of the board of lady managers of the Chicago world's fair under the presidency of mrs palmer that 17,000 realized from the sale of the isabella quarters will be forwarded to mrs palmer immediately mrs trautmann however does not take the same view as to the source of the fund in possession oi mrs rainier and her statement that when the commission was disbanded automatically mrs palmer and mrs trautmann found themselves in possession of a quantity of money that congress had appropriated as well as the money from the sale of concessions in the woman's building bears out to esmo extent the statement of mr llig hotham mr higinbotham left for ludiaua yes terday morning on business connected with one of his trusteeship and will re turn to-morrow evening before leaving be said that the minutes of the ways and means committee of the world's fair which contain the record of the appropriations for the woman's build ing are in the possession of a trust com pany and easily accessible when needed mrs trautman's statement i have the money iu my possession at this instant said mrs trautman when seen in now york yesterday uftemoou and i will place it in mrs palmer's hand at the earliest opportunity she has boon abroad so much of late and has traveled so widely that i have never known where she was tho money is in a trust company here in new york and perhaps i shall send mrs palmer a draft for it to-day or to-morrow 1 was appointed a member of the board of lady managers for the Chicago fair bv chatmoey depew when the com mission was first created hy a special act of congress this was the first time in the history of america that cougres hud officially recognized the american woman as a factor in government and had given her any important work to do east state was to have two women commis goelet pride palls on robert's wife to much mother-in-law as cribed as reason for separation newport r 1 feb 28 too much mother-in-law is said by those most in timate witb the family to be the reason underlying mrs robert goelet's suit for divorce they say it is mrs ogden goelet rather than robert to whom the latter's wife objects i am tired of the constant thought of the goelet name and the effort to main tain the oelet pride the younger mrs goelet is said to have retorted when her husband urged her to stop thinking of a divorce william cheney ellis snapped as he tainted on the witness stand under the gruelling volley of questions fired at him by assistant state's attorney malato ben jamin kraemer court bailiff on the left and attorney remus of counsel for the defense prevent wife slayer from falling from his chair to the floor ce-eds give up hunger strike students say it will be continued if better food is not served the co-eds who began a hunger strike at green and kelly halls at the univer sity of Chicago returned lo their tables yesterday after sending word to miss cora c coburn who has charge of the tables that if better food was not served within the next two days they and the women of foster and beecher halls would undertake another hunger strike the women have been given to under stand that they have the moral support of marion talbot dean of women of the university miss talbot has refused to eat the food served at times and is said to have interceded with the university authorities on behalf of the strikers some of the meat is unfit for food and none of it is good said one of the stu dents the dishes are not clean and the service is intolerable verdict will divide 10,000,000 lands tennessee judge rules for heirs who sue coal concern bristol tenn feb 28 judge frank b hutton of the circuit court at abing don va to-day decided the suit of the imboden heirs against the clinchfield coal corporation involving the title to coal lands in dickenson and russell counties virginia valued at 10,000,000 he sustained the contentions of the complainants and awarded tbem an equity of one-sixth of the entire property the heirs based their claim on the ground that the deed of their father con veying the property to their mother pro vided an equity for the children which was ignored when the parents sold to the coal corporation an appeal will be taken memphis bank will pay its depositors accounts under 1,000 to be settled in full others for 75 per cent memphis feb 28 payment in full to depositors whose individual accounts arc less than 1,000 and 7o per cent payments to depositors of larger sums is proposed in a plan agreed on to-day by directors of the suspended mercantile bank the directors agreed to contribute 300,000 to a fund to be added to the bank's assets an audit of the bank's books showed a shortage of approximate ly 1,000,000 which it is alleged c hun ter raine president of the institution lost in cotton speculations ilalne is in jail awaiting trial on charges of embez zlement he turned over lnis personal fortune to be used as an asset o-t-hie bank '. .", criminal negligence not shown in dye fire evidence taken in the"bearing before deputy state l'ire marshal back concern ing the fire in the plant of the kraus brothers locwy company at 310 west twenty-fourth place monday will be sub mitted to state l'ire marshal walter h bennett at springfield mr bach said the testimony did not show criminal negligence primarily because different witnesses contradicted each other so flatly saloons for women only pittsburgh idea pittsburgh feb 2s pittsburgh will have manless - saloons in the near future according to the plans announced by director of public safety charles b hubbard hukster women and farmer women who congregate in the market house each week to dispose of their wares be gan the custom years ago to go to the saloons and cafes in market square for breakfast and a mug of beer on the side this was legitimate and proper and with these and other respectable women we have found uo fault said di rector hubbard however continued the director other women many of them disreputable characters have taken advantage of this condition and the custom as spread throughout the city lt is a had oue and must be stopped the whole solution of the affair can be brought about by having saloons for women only two saloonkeepers iu the market square whose names i do not wish to divulge ha\e agreed to open such jm seminary ablaze at river forest students help fight flames at evangelical german lutheran institution in spite of the efforts of the fire de partments of three villages and the vol j unteer work of scores of citizens the i'-flae administration building rt ine evau '.,,â€¢Â«Â« â€¢ gel'ital german lutheran concordia senii nor-r'a-i r(yer-i'Â«re,st costing 73,000 was jifcs'trij.t'eovvliisj-.'ulliht by a fire that illu ' m'inafetl the couu'ry for miles four dormitories were threatened and at 9 o'clock the firemen of the river forest qak park and may wood depart ments were working desperately to save them the 200 students labored to ex tinguish sparks on the roofs of the struc tures there were two reports on the cause of the fire one blaming crossed wires near the roof of the administation build ing and the other an overheated furnace | in the basement crosses the andes in american automobile johnson martin princeton football player accomplishes feat washington feb 28 an american built automobile driven by johnson m*m tiu of t'len nidge n j a princeton footbal player of recent years has suc ceeded in crossing the andes thus achiev ing a victory for which automobiles of a number of foreign makes hate been striv ing for the last five years or more a cablegram to-day to the pan-amer ican union announced martin's arrival in santiago chile from buenos aires ar gentina a number of attempts to cross the an des in aeroplanes have failed martin crossed the backbone of th south amor ienn continent at a height of more than i''.ooo feet throng i the famous umpallata pass mayor of st louis eats ostrich egg fresh laid it reaches his table | from park zoo st louis mo feb 28 mayor kiel i for the first time partook of a brand new i breakfast food this morning in the form j of an ostrich egg the egg was presented to george e dieckman president of the st louis zoological society by one of j the monster ostriches in the zoo in for est park thursday night dieckman gave the egg to mayor kiel yesterday with a guarantee that it was perfectly harmless and extremely nourishing it was about the size of a large cocoanut kiel said he was willing to take the chance on most anything and could see no reason why he should not eat the egg i instructed mrs kiel personally to conduct the cooking of the egg the mayor said and 1 told her to scramble it al though dieckman told me it was just as good fried kiel said there was plenty of egg to supply tue entire kiel family i there was j saves 20 from fire hides his identity man gives alarm by shooting and rushes into building an unidentified hero saved twenty frightened children and their parents from tire yesterday the man gave the alarm by tiring five shots from a revolver and then dashed iuto the burning two story flat building at 1400 and 1407 east sixty-fifth street and pounded on the doors of the different families the es caping children were in their night clothes and some of tho little ones were barely able to toddle the families made shelterless wore those of n'ehls swanson who has a wife and seven children martin l-'lannigan his wife and four children and jeremiah lynch his wife and nine children a hasty count made by the fathers in the glare of the burning building dis closed the safety ot all the children shivering and bewailing the loss of their home were cared for by neighbors the buildinjr^was practically a total loss b killing of peeper upheld by jury deserter from army had lived in cellar of mother's home since september cedae itai'ids la feb 28.-shoot ing a man caught peeping in windows of a young women's dormitory is not a crime that should be punished by law was the decision of a coroner's jury at mount evrnon la this afternoon the jury which consisted of a retired farm er a hardware merchant and an attor ney completely exonerated three students at cornell college who shot and killed . howard manning last night the testimony also brought out tre fact that manning has been biding in mount vernon since last september unknown to any one except his mother several rob j beries that have been committed in the 1 town since that time in addition to : numerous peeping tom complaints are | believed to have been committed by the ; | young man after his dentil manning's mother j stated that her son deserted from the ! army last september and since that time she has kept him hidden in the cellar of her home he left his hiding place | at night only and after the residents of j the town had gone to bed he was twen â– ty-five years old and married his wife ! left him shortly after the wedding woman's parliament to down suffrage london feb 28 the socl ist week ly the new statesman publishes a re port to-day that mrs humphrey ward with a view to overthrowing the suf frage movement is organizing an of ficial woman's f.iri lament to be com i posed of women and such liberal and j unionist members of the house of com | mons as can be persuaded to loin lt to | sit permanently and advise the gotirn uient on all legislative matters concern 4 women mrs ward is a pronounced ajfu-woman suffragist / ft __ wife pur cries ellis attacked by paren best of women exclai slayer when her aged ther enraged by his tel mony shouts i'll kill yoi is this the reason ex-ju asks as maddened by ad sion of malady he tries attack prisoner in co confronted by the enraged parent the wife he killed and then traduced life threatened iu court by his father-in-law and subjected to the est mental torture by the merciless < tions of the prosecutor that bareu innermost secrets of his life william ( i ney ellis fainted ou the witness si yesterday in judge potil's court , greatly exhausted be finished thet day of testimony in his own defense left the stand to bo succeeded by ex ; alienists who will try to convinc 1 jury he w-as insane when on uctobe last he shot and stabbed his witj death in bed at the hotel sherman the day in court was one of tense uations the first demonstration wrii when ellis on the stain admitted before he had married the beau eleanor hosea in cincinnati nine j ago be had suffered with a lorriolc ease which it was liken lis cliih would inheril ellis was protcstin hrd wanted to shield his wife i*ll kill you cries parent yes you wanted to shiobl her claimed assistant state's attorney j to you were shielding her when married her knowing that you sufl from an inheritable disease did yon yv>u wore damaged goods yet married this purest and best of wni and yon never told her did you never told her father did youv i thought it was not necessary j doctor told me it was not ejjjj piled i then robert h hosea himself foj i on the bench trembling under thÂ»4h i of his grief and his seventy-five j i leaped to his feet in horror and wrd i is this the reason is this the reafcl i he screamed think of those little i dren 111 kill you l'll kill you i he started for the witness ata-g b if his feeble bands could do barm i b man who had slain his child bat h â– held back and judge petit declared i cess for a few minutes b mrs hosea clung to her husband i and wept but took no part in his â– sionate outbreak . â– mistakes lawyer for slayer i b as tbey were being led on ef th i there was another scene attorney ** i burtner of cincinnati an old mend i moned here by the defense net the b the aisle and held out both hands fc i stricken father hosea tbougbt it i ellis â– ont of my ai_i ihoute h a w a y-get away or i'll kill v.,u i whole story is ftrfse bell just h but by this i ll i f vife i ing to him had made him under tanfl i this was not the man but a f lend i the old mini put abont bw h neck and wept from the beginning been j i ent that ellis defense would tal i form of temporarj insanity auj ibis wife's admission that her invl b gone to another man and possihj i the charge open or veiled that i had been something improper in h i but yesterday goaded to frenzy s i torturing questions of the slat hi b claimed loudly he knew that ulsj i wns pure and good and trite watts attorney maluto askcdthiinj i be charge that his wife had bj i friendly with fred cauldwell - fl i ford ont he lost control of himflj m"my wife good and pure.'b i doit warn this jury to thirÃŸ anything inst my wife â– b"my wife eras i soot pure woil i car whether it goes againsll bir is concornei i lon't cstÃŸ lensp â€¢>Â£ a fingei but i do think !â– lii to lire for the sake of my cl-fl i the state yesterday announced i iwill a*v fred canidwell a merclÃŸ ont , tc come here andfl i ellis has always said he follch bvife to Chicago from cincinnati 1 hrivttnued on sth page sth column continued on 2d page 6th column fsjf-3 Chicago and vicinity gen ' vi^s^n ut erally fair sunday and monday q_sj*br much colder sunday high north pv a stf west winds sunday 3jj kange of temperatures yesterday v.vn \ __ â€” ' iwn Â« this edition consists of i news s city i.ife i want ads jâ€”nk'ws e ~ editorial real estai ctyg r ction financial 3 sl'ortts t a.ua h magazine 4 sotlfctv and t'sic 9 comics foreign 10-monthly magazine